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Welch, Kristen; Lee, Nicholas; Shuman, Dustin – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2010
An emphasis on visual rhetoric can be incorporated into a variety of classrooms. This article illustrates teaching visual rhetoric to first-year composition students via interpretation and analysis through a trip to a local art museum for the first essay assignment and through an exploration of photography for the second essay assignment. In the…
Descriptors: Freshman Composition, Rhetoric, Essays, Museums
Davis, Kevin – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2011
The third goal of Zen practice, helping others achieve enlightenment, suggests that teachers should help students learn about their own composing practices and histories as part of their instruction, but they cannot help others until they learn to help themselves by reflecting on their own processes and histories, becoming enlightened, and…
Descriptors: Essays, Teaching Methods, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction
McKnight, Heal – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2010
Almost all of the author's community college students feel self-conscious about their vocabulary. She thinks that their resistance to expanding their vocabulary has many tangled roots: sometimes the students seem nervous about what they leave behind as they notch their vocabulary up to a more formal, college level. This article discusses how the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Vocabulary Development, College Students, Journal Writing
Nelson, Alexis – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2012
Some teaching strategies grow out of the curricula educators inherit or develop through professional reading; others originate in the aromatic humus of their autobiographies. This article presents a proposal that has its origins in the latter. The author recognized that what delights her in prose or poetry is the figurative language a writer uses…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Figurative Language, Basic Writing, Prose
Shafer, Gregory – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2011
This essay is about the process of discovering and trying to help an exceptional student who was grappling with issues of real-life violence and incarceration and the desire to articulate their meaning to his life through writing. It describes how this student empowered himself to reflect on and deconstruct the meaning of his incarceration and how…
Descriptors: College Students, English Instruction, Higher Education, Violence
Shafer, Gregory – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2012
In this article, the author talks about the college writing center, which is a place of political confrontation, where cultural issues involving dialect and values are probed, contested, and negotiated. He suggests a post-process approach to composition--one that ushers writers into a world of exploration and social engagement--one that transcends…
Descriptors: Politics of Education, Values, Culture Conflict, Educational Theories
Assessing Collaborative Writing in Nontraditional and Traditional First-Year College Writing Courses
Daemmrich, Ingrid G. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2010
Composition teachers have generally embraced collaborative learning in the years since Kenneth Bruffee published his first article promoting its advantages in "College English" in 1972. But assigning collaboratively written papers in an introductory college writing course is still rare. This study assesses the benefits and drawbacks of assigning a…
Descriptors: Freshman Composition, College English, Collaborative Writing, Essays

Dolinsky, Kaaren – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1992
Describes a writing assignment in which students write an essay employing lexical, etymological, and connotative definitions. (SR)
Descriptors: Definitions, Essays, Higher Education, Writing Assignments

Soles, Derek – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1995
Argues that composition teachers should assign essay topics on writing because, by writing about writing, students can synthesize and master the material covered in class. (SR)
Descriptors: Essays, Higher Education, Writing (Composition), Writing Assignments

Speer, Tom – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1995
Reviews the arguments for and against teaching the traditional five-paragraph essay model. Describes a teaching approach in which students critically examine these arguments while learning the principle features of the five-paragraph essay. (SR)
Descriptors: College English, English Instruction, Essays, Higher Education
Ahrenhoerster, Greg – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2006
Although writing instructors have a clear picture of how well our students can write by the end of a composition course, very rarely do we learn how well the students carry over the skills and strategies we teach them to the essays they write for other courses. I collected essays from other courses to determine how effectively students transfer…
Descriptors: Essays, Assignments, Writing Processes, English Departments